Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli tank had pulled back from the Awali River bridge on Feb. 16, the Lebanese Army began to move into Sidon. Car horns blared, and Lebanese flags appeared everywhere. The festivities were interrupted when two Israeli Kfir fighters dived low over the city and released clouds of leaflets promising swift retaliation in the event of hostile action against Israel's withdrawing forces. But about the only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove off. All told, half...
...brilliant decor and alien music, Robbins gives this ballet a fresh-as- tomorrow look, but the choreography blends fairly closely with two other strong Robbins works now in repertory, Piano Pieces and the brief Andantino. And as always, Robbins nods to the dances of his mentor George Balanchine, particularly swift, sharply etched Rubies and the propulsive Agon. He is experimenting with a new kind of music, and how far he will go is unclear. But in the meantime he puts on a hell of a show...
...friend also told me that before and during the critical days of the uprising Moscow's instructions were sometimes confusing and occasionally betrayed a lack of understanding of what was really going on. Andropov's advice to Moscow, however, was extensive and served as a basis for swift decisions, including the decision to crush the rebellion with tanks...
...reaction to the Italian charges was swift and angry. "It would be good if each country occupied itself with its own responsibilities," said French Government Spokeswoman Georgina Dufoix. Still, Paris has cause for embarrassment. When the government of President Francois Mitterrand came to power nearly four years ago, it granted amnesty to members of the now outlawed Action Directe, an organization that has carried out nine bombing attacks in the past year in addition to the murder of Audran...
...brags of his exploits as a Don Cossack; he claims pure Russian ; blood and a batch of patents for airplanes and automobiles. But one can never be sure that anything Pyatnitski says is true. He is certainly an egomaniac and very likely mad; he is also a reactionary Tom Swift, an anti-Semite, a sybarite and a paranoiac with a gargantuan appetite for cocaine...